The biggest LIE of the century was the most unethical message that can be imagined was perpetrated by our government on the citizens of this nation. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiqs_ZxDiXM The United State lost over 4500 lives in the War of Iraq. A war we entered because our President said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He said we had no other reason for going. Yet, according to CNN, "In 2000, Big Oil, including Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell, spent more money to get fellow oilmen Bush and Cheney into office than they had spent on any previous election. Just over a week into Bush's first term, their efforts paid off when the National Energy Policy Development Group, chaired by Cheney, was formed, bringing the administration and the oil companies together to plot our collective energy future. In March, the task force reviewed lists and maps outlining Iraq's entire oil productive capacity. Planning for a military invasion was soon under way. Bush's first Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, said in 2004, "Already by February (2001), the talk was mostly about logistics. Not the why (to invade Iraq), but the how and how quickly."
Sadly, the American people believed our President. We are ingrained to want to believe our Presidents. As a society we had a chose to believe or not. As a nation, we had a choice to go to war or not. So to answer: The creators of this message wanted to make money. The audience was the American public. We definitely had free choice. Our President definitely lied. He used our fear, sorrow and shock of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to help convince us. Sorrow fear and shock are great motivators. I will forever be much more sceptical of what my leaders in Washington say.
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